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. THOMAS A. JEBB, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

`IMPROVEMENT IN RAILROAD TICKETS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,687, dated September 24, 1'872.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known thatI, THOMAS A. JEBB, of the city of Buiialo, in the county of Erie and State of New York,`have invented an Improvement in Railroad Tickets, of which the following is a specification:

The keeping of a correct account of fares collected by a conductor,so as to enable Vthe properreturns to be made, has been heretofore, even with honest conductors, a matter of considerable difficulty with the tickets ordinarily used, owing to the haste and confusions incident to the collection of fares and other duties of a conductor on a train of crowded cars. With conductors who have not the strictest notions as lto honesty, ample opportunity is offered for peculation by making incorrect returns without fear of detection. The object of my invention is to provide simple means for readily and conveniently keepingua correct account of fares collected, and at the same time render the appropriation of funds by the conductor a matter attended with.' such liabilityof detection as to practically insure true and honest returns, even by those who would not hesitate to peculate if it could loe carried on without The vinvention consists` of a book of fare-tickets provided with stubs numbered consecutively to correspond with the consecutivennmbers of the tickets, and

@having printedthereon a list of the various amounts of fare charged between different .stations on the' road, while the tickets are provided with 'a duplicate list of such fares and a list of the stations, whereby the conductor, by punching the stub opposite the duplicate sum paid and punched from the ticket, is furnished` (without requiring the use of a pencil) a correct record of the money collected, which record he is required toreturn to the office of the company; and by requirin g him to lift and return the tickets, or by oiering a `rebate or premium to the passeny. gers who `*shall present them at the office, any want of coincidence in the sum punched from any ticketand its stub will be detected y In the accompanying drawing, Figure I is a face view of one of my combined tickets and stubs as printed and adapted for use on the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad; Fig. II is a similar view of a half-fare ticket; and Fig. III is a perspective view of a book of tickets like that shown in Fig. I.

The ticket A is printed with the names of the months, and with numbers from 1 to 31, both inclusive, from which the date is to be punched, with the names of the stations, with two duplicate columns of the amounts of fare paid, with the words north and south over the initial and final letters of the :first station to indicate the direction of the train,

l and is numbered consecutively, (eighteen being the number of the ticket shown in-Fig. I, and ten thatl shown in Fig. II,) all of which is described ina specification of an application previously iiled by me. The stub B is printed with a list of fares-the duplicate of that printed on the ticket.

The conductor is required tio punch the terminal stations of the distance paid for, and also to punch from the list of fares of both the stub and the ticket 'the numbers which correspond with the sum actually collected by him. In Fig. I the number 2.0077 is represented punched from both ticket and stub, and indicates two dollars as the sum paid, while the initial letters of Nashville and FlorencebeingpunchedundertheheadingSouth indicates that the fare is paid from Nashville to Florence.

This construction of a book of tickets enables single tickets to be used in place of duplicate tickets With substantially the same benefits as a convenient record and a prevention of fraud, while thesame numbers form books of half the size, which can bevused 4with greater convenience than books of ducially manufacture the paper for the tickets list of fares on the tickets, the latter having with awater-mark of my initials-(13. A. J.- also thereon a list of the stations, substanthe'rein. tially as and for the purpose hereinbefore set What I claim as my invention is forth. A book of fare-tickets the stubs of which T. A. JEBB.

are consecutively numbered, and which have thereon a list of the various amounts of fare Witnesses:

charged between dierent stations to corre- JOHN J. BONNER, spond with the consecutive numbersand the GEO. J. METZGER. 

